I think the phpBB controls are a lot easier to use than what the SMF's controls are.

Yes please do explain what you find hard to do in SMF and what makes it easier in phpBB, so that we can change it in further releases.

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Yes please do explain what you find hard to do in SMF and what makes it easier in phpBB, so that we can change it in further releases.

It is difficult for me to find certain things in the SMF admin panel. Sometimes what I'm looking for is in the "posts" section. Or it could be in "current theme". The place you think something should be often is where it isn't. There's room for improvement. As far as the phpBB admin panel, I've found that I can find stuff pretty much where I expect it to be. The phpBB3 admin panel is a little more intuitive.

I recently installed phpBB3 final and I must say that it is nice. I'm not sure at this time if I'm going to add another forum because one of my sites gets very little traffic (and I'm not converting my existing SMF forum). However, in all honesty, if I do decide to add a forum it's most likely going to be phpBB3. It's fast and the HTML is nice and clean--divs and CSS--no ugly tables and rows. Plus, it's got captcha for guest posting plus a whole lot more nice features.

It is difficult for me to find certain things in the SMF admin panel. Sometimes what I'm looking for is in the "posts" section. Or it could be in "current theme". The place you think something should be often is where it isn't. There's room for improvement. As far as the phpBB admin panel, I've found that I can find stuff pretty much where I expect it to be. The phpBB3 admin panel is a little more intuitive.

Any specific sections?

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Yes please do explain what you find hard to do in SMF and what makes it easier in phpBB, so that we can change it in further releases.

It is difficult for me to find certain things in the SMF admin panel. Sometimes what I\'m looking for is in the \"posts\" section. Or it could be in \"current theme\". The place you think something should be often is where it isn\'t. There\'s room for improvement. As far as the phpBB admin panel, I\'ve found that I can find stuff pretty much where I expect it to be. The phpBB3 admin panel is a little more intuitive.

I recently installed phpBB3 final and I must say that it is nice. I\'m not sure at this time if I\'m going to add another forum because one of my sites gets very little traffic (and I\'m not converting my existing SMF forum). However, in all honesty, if I do decide to add a forum it\'s most likely going to be phpBB3. It\'s fast and the HTML is nice and clean--divs and CSS--no ugly tables and rows. Plus, it\'s got captcha for guest posting plus a whole lot more nice features.

^^ Oh God Yes!

The admin CP organisation...wow... it all works when you find it, but wow..what a search!

2.0 probably won't as it's basically feature frozen, but for the version after I definitely hope so. However to change the admin CP (for the better) we really need to know what the current problems are. Specific problems. If you can think of specific settings that weren't where you expected, or that did something you didn't expect, please write about them here. But if all that people post is "the admin CP is confusing" how will the team know what to fix?

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